June 22
I decided to hop train and head to stirling castle. I wanted to make it to some of the outskirt castles but I don’t know how much time will allow. After about 30 min the train arrived in Stirling….wasn’t too hard to locate castle….on top of hill of course! The castle was very nice but for what they charge you it should be gold plated everything. …but then again how often do I get to see castles?after touring the castle I walked around the town, then headed back to train.
When I got back to Edinburgh I have to use my train ticket to checkout…but where was my ticket?…I checked my pockets bag couldn’t find it nowhere. I tried to explain to the attendendent at the barriers of the train station …he said no ticket…cant come in Edinburgh…(so I guess Im stuck on tracks?). I went back to train and see if it was in my seat…but there goes train…..I look down and I see a ticket that must be mine laying on the tracks….hmmm its a pretty deep stepoff, what if I cant get back up in time…I decided to ask another attendent what I could do…he said I cpuld go to the ricket office on other side explain situation and see if thwy could help me…..as I walked off I decided to try getting that ticket off the track…but before I did that I reached my hand into the camera bag and there was my ticket….whew…
I decided I was very hungry. I grabbed some KFC…I know…pathetic tourist eating American….but this place likes breads too much…I need meat. I looked at menu and ordered 2 piece meal with mashed potatoes and gravy with corn. The cashier said they don’t serve mashed potatoes…I looked at menu seen the fravy but there was no mashed potatoes on it….I looked at picture and seen 2 pc chicken, corn, fries and side of gravy. I started laughing and asked what do you put gravy on? ..Ill pass on the gravy for my corn thank you.
After eating I hiked to Carlton Hill. It overlooks the town with beautiful monuments. It was very nice but pretty cold. I headed back to room and went to bed.
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